weekend + the moment

Life is so, so fun lately. I honestly need to appreciate it more because we are constantly having so much fun, and for the most part our life is really care free. (except for the days when its not). I find myself getting excited & impatient about the future all too often though. Seriously, I already have strollers and mom cars picked out for myself. Who does that?! MMM... I love those honda pilots! Hah. Some days working at the drive through at the credit union I see cute little moms come through in their Honda Pilots with a car full of kids in swimming suits and I am like, THAT LOOKS SO much more enjoyable than what I am doing.

But then I realize, our life is sooo easy, and so fun, and those experiences will come. For now, I just need to enjoy now. 

And let me just say, the NOW lately is oh so good. 

Here are some pictures of our wonderful weekend.

Friday night we went to the temple & then went on a little date to get sushi.

Saturday I woke up early and made Tanner breakfast, this deserves to be blogged because 

A. I never make/eat breakfast 

B. I never wake up before Tanner

After my oh-so-gourmet breakfast we rode our bikes a couple of blocks to the Farmers Market (one of our favorite Saturday activities) and got some eggs and all natural snow cones. So classy, I know, I know. 

After the Farmers Market we went Birthday shopping for me, and then got a quick lunch at Thai Ruby before going sailing with my Dad and Wes. 

It was a fun fun day! My Dad forgot the weather vane so I was responsible for reading the wind... which I am shockingly good at. I kept telling the boys it was just my hair blowing that helped me figure it out... but let's be real here, I think I may have a little more native american in me than I get credit for. 

birthday week!

GUYS!!!! It's day 2 of my birthday week.

Birthday week this year  will consist of a present a day (most of which I picked out myself haha:))

Hopefully some white water rafting,

A nice dinner at Sundance,

A King Crab dinner at my parents house,

& lots of other fun stuff that we haven't planned yet.

Any suggestions? (because I am not spoiled enough already.) 

I love birthday week.

Who wouldn't? 

*Day one present* A new dress from Soel. Thanks Tan. You have such good taste. 

the fourth of july

July 3rd, waiting for fireworks to begin in NSL. 

Wednesday morning I woke up giddy.

I even woke Tanner up by jumping on the bed.

(he was not as thrilled as I was, can you believe it?)

Because for goodness sakes, it was the 4th of July!!!

Only the best day of the year.

& for 4 years I have been MIA (work, peru, work, work) on the 4th, so obviously I was giddy to have this one off, who wouldn't be?
(In fact I proposed to Tanner that we give our kids presents on the fourth instead of Christmas. Still workin on that one...)  

So here is the low-down on this fabulous day.

First, we rode our bikes a few blocks to watch to parade. Which was hot and sort of lame. 

But "nienie" was the grand marshal of the parade, and after reading her book I am sort of in love with her, so that was fun to see her and her cute family all decked out in anthro. 

NieNie and her family.

M&M at the parade. Tanner showing his patriotism by turning my scarf into a turban.

We lasted a solid 20 minutes at the parade before we decided to go to 7PEAKS. We just relaxed and floated around in tubes and talked with Marcus and Makayla for a couple of hours.

After 7PEAKS we headed to the Freedom Festival market and walked around long enough to get sunburned and enjoy some mexican corn. mmmmmmmmm..

After our jot at the market Tanner & I conked out before heading to a barbeque at our neighbors place with some couples from our ward for a couple of hours.

AND FROM THERE... we headed up to Thanksgiving Point to meet up with Marcus and Makayla for a picnic, games, and fireworks. It was a blast. We sat and ate and talked and imparted our vast knowledge of marriage upon M & M. They really appreciated it. (haha:))  and played frisbee on the grass while we waited for the fireworks. We had a BUSY & wonderful fourth. 

Now, can we do it all over again? 

strawbrerries

We had a great week + weekend. Thursday we went to Strabrerry Days, and then snuck into Scera Shell and watched a play. Always a good time. On Friday T came home from work early and we headed up to Strawberry Res. and camped with my parents up there. It was FABULOUS! 

Tanner & Wes did some serious Crawdad fishing... they caught ten of those nasty little creatures, and then ATE them. I was turned off by the exploding guts and brains. Crazy, I know. 

We spent some much needed time gathered around the fire, a morning on the lake in the kayaks, and ATE SOME DELICIOUS CAMPING FOOD!! Our life revolves around food. Clearly. 

But really. We love camping. And by we love camping, I actually mean, we think we love camping and then we go and then we remember that what we actually love is our bed. 

All in all though. Living is easy these days & we are la la la loooving summer.

I have been working on a BIG 'OL project lately as well. I can't wait to show you what I've been up to! 

the most perfect saturday

Saturday we woke up (after some glorious sleeping in), cleaned a little, and then headed to the farmers market. I used to love going to this in high school, and have missed being able to go since I always worked on Saturday. It was fun as always. We got some pupusas, natural honey sticks, and a new cute pair of earrings for me!!

After the Farmers Market we drove up the canyon to go on a little hike on timp (not all the way up). It was a blast, we went about 7.5 miles & saw so many awesome waterfalls, and had fun hanging out outside for the majority of the day. I of course rubbed my hand through stinging nettle; which was probably the highlight of the trip. We are just so outdoorsy huh??? 

& of course we ended the day with Thai Food. 

graduation {finally}

We're vamps. 

wow WOW WOW! It has been much too long. But when you have a major life change, you forget to blog ok? Ok, not that major. Just ended last semester and started a new job. But seriously, now that life is just a big 'ol party who has time to blog? 

But that is about to change.

So I need to go wayy back in time to T's graduation!

We had such a wonderful time, enjoying our old stomping grounds, and celebrating his big accomplishment! (even though he technically graduated in December)

I am so proud of all the hard work he put in, and how hard he now works at his job. We had such a lovely celebration all weekend that included, Indian Oven (thnx Qstigram) MARKET Street Grill, thanks to T's wonderful parents, and Le nonne the night before grad with Maki's cute family. Yum yum. (clearly our lives revolve around eating.) We had so much fun hanging out with T's parents friday night and showing them our favorite spots. They sure treated us well. We had a great time spending time with them and being grossed out by Quinstigram's oysters.

This pic has NO FILTER GUYS!! The lighting in Market Street Grill is yummmy!!!! (This was artichoke cream cheese salmon)

doo dee doo

I am soo, soo, behind on blogging! It seems like as soon as school got out I no longer needed something to do to put off doing homework. Which is a total bummer, because school getting out meant the fun stuff was just beginning. So this post'll be packed. Can't say I didn't warn you!

Last week, Tanner went to San Fransisco on a business trip. He is all grown up! He had SUCH a wonderful time. He was able to go to Fisherman's Wharf, China Town, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Alcatraz! (And he did a little bit of work ;)) How lucky is he? Growing up, my Dad's business trips weren't this fun (at least, he pretended like they weren't). So while Tanner was getting all excited to go -- I kept being being debbie downer and telling him he wasn't going to have fun! (what do I know?!) I am so so glad I was wrong! And I am so glad to have him back. He learned lots of fun things about windows 8 and got to download it for free, even though it doesn't come out until December, cool, huh?

While Tanner was in SF, I was a lonely girl. I read books and took naps to recover from finals. (I have a long recovery time) It was pure heaven. I finished "Uglies", which was for book club, and started the "The Happiness Project." I am pretty sure I could write my own happiness project book though, it would be called the hurry up and graduate project.

Before Tanner left we went on a date to Tepenyaki and to see "The Lucky One" I loved it. Of course. Seriously though. Unfortunately, it wasn't as smutty as I had hoped (haha just kidding). We also went to Bridal Veil Falls & to Provo Beach Resort for ice cream (BEST EVER) a few days before he left.

After Tanner got home we went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. I love the gardens there, so of course, I loved the tulip festival. While we were there we got junky carnival food. We felt like the walking dead for a few hours (or days) afterwards. Why does carnival food always look so good & taste so bad?!

Sunday was so super duper busy. We had been looking forward to a Sunday where I wasn't studying all day, but alas, it was the last Sunday of the month, so instead of studying all day we were visiting/home teaching all day! It was good though. M & M came over and we played a very competitive game of UNO. Woops.

And FINALLY this week I have been going shopping all week to get some work clothes (City Creek & the Outlets with mum). I left j crew with a giant full back today. It felt way good and way fun until I looked at the bank account! It's for work, guys, I had no choice really :)

Happy Thursday! T & I are seeing Avengers tonight & then headed to Logantown for graduation and a walk down memory lane!